Dispensing package holder



March 20, 1956 GANTNER 2,738,942

DISPENSING PACKAGE HOLDER Filed Sept. 23, 1952 2 Sheets-Sheet l 7 I JNVENTOR. Y EDWARD G. GANTNER &.

1 BY Mam M Gigs.

Mardl 1956 E. G. GANTNER DISPENSING PACKAGE HOLDER 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 Filed Sept. 23, 1952 H LEZTTLT.

45 INVENTOR.

EDWARD G. GANTNER United States PatentOf DISPENSING PACKAGE HOLDER Edward G. Gantner, Morton Grove, Ill. Application September 23, 1952, Serial No. 311,067

1 Claim. (Cl. 248-289) The invention relates to improvement in dispensing devices and is particularly concerned with a structural arrangement especially engineered for supporting a box or carton of disposable tissues or sheets in various positions upon a mounting element. I

The invention is especially concerned with the novel construction and opcrationof means adapted for pivotally mounting a container for a carton of disposable paper tissues or sheets, such as Kleenex, on the dash of an automobile so as to enable the container to be moved from a non-use or non-dispensing position beneath the dash into an exposed position permitting the p dispensing of sheets. The particular embodiment of the invention disclosed in the accompanying drawings is designed to accommodate a rectangular carton of paper tissues of the nature having a dispensing opening or slot in one face thereof through which the disposable sheets are A further object of the present invention is to pro- I vide a novel structure whereby a container for a carton of disposable tissues may be pivotally mounted securely on the dash of an automobile, for quick and easy access and sanitary, non-interfering storage. 7

These and other objects of the invention will'appje ar I hereinafter as the description 'proceeds.

The invention consists in the'novel structure and combination of parts all of which will be better understood by reference to the accompanying drawings, in which:

Fig. 1 is a perspective view. of the container and mounting showing thecontainer in a sheet dispensing position and illustrating a fragment of the dash of an automobile upon which it is mounted.

Fig. 2 is a fragmentary perspective view of the parts shown in Fig. 1, illustrating the position assumed when the container is in a non-dispensing position.

Fig. 3 is a top plan view of the mounting bracket and showing a fragmentary portion of the container.

Fig. 4 is a vertical sectional view taken substantially along line 44 of Fig. 3, but showing the bracket mounted on the dash which is illustrated in section.

Fig. 5 is a vertical sectional view taken on line 5-5 of Fig. 4.

Fig. 6 is a front elevational view of a modified form of container and mounting showing it in non-dispensing position and mounted on the dash of an automobile.

Fig. 7 is a horizontal view taken along line 7-7 of Fig. 6 and illustrating in broken lines the container in dispensing position.

Fig. 8 is a vertical sectional view taken on line 8 8 of Fig. 6.

Fig. 9 is a vertical sectional view taken on line 9--9 of Fig. 7. 1 7 i I Referring particularly to the embodiment of the invention illustrated in Figs. 1 through 5 of the accompanying drawings, a dispensing carton 11 of disposable tissues 12 is shown mounted within a substantially rectangular container 13. 'Ihecontainer 13 may be made of any suitable material'such as, for example, sheet metal, however, in the present disclosure it is fabricated from a suitable plastic, as by molding, and it includes a top wall 14, front Wall 15 and end walls 16. 'The back side of the container 13, that is the side opposed to the front wall 15, is open and the open side maybe surrounded by an external flange-17 for purposes of reinforcement. A cartonof disposable paper tissues may be readily inserted and an empty carton withdrawn from the container 13 through the open back side'thereof. When the carton 11 is in the position of use illustrated in Fig. 1, sheets of disposable tissues 12 may be withdrawn from the carton through the usual slot 18 provided therein,which slotis in register with a longitudinal externally flanged dispensing opening 19 in the container top wall14. i p

The container 13, having a carton ofdisposable tissues therein, is adapted to be positioned beneath the dash 21 of a vehicle substantially in the position illustrated in Fig. 2, and when a sheet'of disposable tissues is desired, the container 13 is moved into a position such as is best illustrated in Fig. 1. This may be best accomplished by providing, on one corner of the container, a mounting structure which affords a firm pivotal mounting therefor. The mounting structure preferably consists of a bracket including a mounting member 22 and a bracket part 23. As shown, the mounting member 22 comprises a metal strap which is secured to an inwardly downwardly inclined flange 24 of the dash 21 preferably by means of a pair of nuts and bolts 25. The bolts are extended through apertures in offset end portions of the mounting member 22. The offset end portions are provided on the mounting member 22 so as to afiord clearance for the head 26 of a pint'le 27. The olfset end portions of the member 22 are inclined relative to its normal plane to facilitate, the 'mounting'of the bracket on the dash flange 24even though the latter may be inclined as illustrated.

Referring now particularly to the'Figs. 4 and S, the bracket part 23 is fabricated from light gauge sheet metal suitably shaped to provide perpendicular walls 28 and 29, a top wall 30 and a bottom wall 31 both integral with the perpendicular wall 28. The perpendicular wall 29 has end portions 32"and 33 bent inwardly at right angles thereto and said inwardly turned portions may be welded to the respective walls 30 and 31, as indicated at 34. This aifords a substantially rigid part 23 capable of resisting torsional strain and, as shown, the part 23 is fitted over and secured'firmly to one corner of the container 16 as by means of screws 35.

An car 36 is struck inwardly from the perpendicular wall .29 between its upper and lower extremities and said ear is apertured to receive therethrough the lower end portion of the pintle 27. The pintle 27 is provided, in

a lower part extending through the car 36, with a reduced diameter 37 to receive frictionally a collar 38. The collar 38 affords an abutment for the lower end of a compression spring 39, fitted over the pintle 27. The upper end of the spring bears against the inturned flange 32.

It should be quite evident at this time that the bracket 2223 having the container 13 firmly secured thereto,

may be easily and quickly mounted upon the dash of an automobile at any point for convenient access and, when so mounted, the container may be swung from the position illustrated in Fig. 2 to the position illustrated in Fig.

Patented Mar. 20, 1956 1 and vice versa. The spring 39 tends at all times to hold the part 23 in frictional bearing engagement with the intermediate portion of the mounting member 22 thus affording means to resist unintended swinging movement of the container. Additional means may be provided to prevent such unintended swinging by forming a detent projection 41 in the mounting member 22 which detent is intended to co-act with and engage in one or the other of a pair of recess openings 42 provided in the top Wall 30 of the part 23 depending on the particular position in which the container is located. Movement of the container through an arc greaterthan ninety degrees about the pintle 27 is limited by providing a stop flange 43 on the upper extremity of the wall 28 of the part 23. This stop preferably is formed by striking it out of the portion of sheet metal defining the top wall 30 prior to bending said top wall at right angles to the perpendicular wall 28. As shown in Fig. 2 it engages the front edge of a flange portion of the strap 22, between the offset end portions.

Referring now to the disclosure of the modified construction illustrated in Figs. 6 through 9 inclusive, in which like numerals are used toidentify parts corresponding to parts shown in the previously described construction, it will be noted that the container 13 is mounted in a member 44 which corresponds substantially to the part 23 of the Fig. l disclosure. In the present instance the member 44 includes a vertical wall 45 which is substantially coextensive with the length of the container 13 and may constitute the front wall thereof. The upper and lower margins of the wall 45 are bent substantially at right angles thereto inwardly over the top and bottom, respectively, of the container 13 and said margins are enlarged at one end as at 46. Upon referring to Figs. 7 and 9 it will be observed that the enlarged portions 46 project beyond the container end wall 16 and that a vertical wall 47 is formed by bending the free end margin portion of the wall 45 perpendicular to the main body thereof. An ear 48 is struck out of the wall portion 47 and said ear, together with an upper end extension 49 on the wall 47, are apertured to receive a pintle 50. The pintle 50 has a reduced diameter at 51 receiving a washer 52 against which the lower end of a coil spring 53 rests. Spring 53 is fitted loosely around the pintle 50 and its upper end bears against the bottom face of the wall extension 49 so as to urge the pintle 50 downwardly at all times. Thus a bracket member 44, 49, 48 is formed integrally with a part 45 of the container 44.

A plate 54 is firmly secured to the projecting end of the pintle 50 which end is, as best shown in Figs- 8 and 9, of reduced diameter and externally threaded at 55 so as to be received through an aperture 56 in a dash flange 24 for securement firmly thereto by nut 57. The plate 54 has a detent projection 58 adapted to co-act with one or the other of a pair of recess openings 59 in the top wall extension 46 so as to afford means for frictionally retaining the container in position to admit ready access to disposable tissues carried therein or in the position of concealment beneath the dash 21, as illustrated in Fig. 6. A stop lug 61 is struck out of and extends above the top edge of the front wall so as to afford abutment means for the plate 54 irrespective of which position said plate may be in relative to said container. This abutment limits movement of the container about the pivotal pintle 49 to ninety degrees.

Although exemplary embodiments of the present invention have been disclosed in the accompanying drawings and described in detail in the foregoing description it should be understood that the construction and description may embody a wide variety of modifications in details of construction without departing from the spirit of the invention or the scope of the appended claim.

I claim:

A tissue dispenser for an automobile comprising a mounting member having a top adapted to be mounted to the underside of the dash of the automobile and having a fiat bottom wall; a boxlike container sufficiently long, wide and high to hold a carton containing a supply of tissues; a hollow corner bracket secured to a vertical corner of the boxlike container and as high as such corner, said bracket having a flat top wall adapted to contact the bottom wall of the mounting member in a swinging motion relative thereto and also at rest; detent means in said walls for limiting such swinging motion; and means to hold the container to the mounting member, substantially consisting in a vertically elongated pintle, extending through the mounting member and downwardly a substantial distance into the hollow corner bracket, and a coil spring in the hollow corner bracket, surrounding the pintle and extending along a substantial part of the length of the pintle, said spring bearing at one end against the corner bracket and at its other end against an abutment on the pintle so as to urge the bracket into surface to surface contact with the mounting member whereby swinging in and out from under the dash can be performed smoothly, about the pintle, and yet the container can be held firmly with the aid of the detent means and the coil spring surrounding the pintle.

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